In 2024 I read 215 books. That’s bananas, even by my standards. In 2023 I read 73. 184 audiobooks31 Kindle books19 DNF (Did Not Finish). Longest Book: 33hr 58min – Dark Age by Pierce BrownShortest Book: 2hr 6min – Legion by Brandon SandersonAverage Length: 10hr 52min Favorites I love stories… Read More »Books I read in 2024
73 books. 33 fiction and 40 non-fiction.
My reflections on all the books I read in 2022.
In 2021 I read 61 books for a total of 648 hours. Summaries below. 2020 book list The Best Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn) Author actually managed to write a captivating page-turner while having something to say about an important societal topic. Writers usually overdue it in the righteousness department with… Read More »Books I Read in 2021
The Cool Girl is a character-type decades old if not longer. Women famously known as Cool Girls go far back as Clara Bow, Carole Lombard, and Jane Fonda. Today we have Jennifer Lawrence, Mila Kunis, and Megan Fox. The Cool Girl has seeped into the persona of what many men… Read More »The Cool Girl Lie
Esther Perel is a world-renowned couples therapist and author. In her book, Mating in Captivity, she introduces a dichotomy within relationships that has continued to fill my thoughts since reading it: There is a natural conflict between the values we seek in a long-term relationship — stability, trust, intimacy —… Read More »The Paradox of Marriage: Conflict of Love and Desire
In 2020 I read 50 books (from when I started counting in March) for a total of 718 hours. When I started tracking I never thought of sharing these publicly, yet here we are. I like to read a variety of genres and a variety of perspectives on a given… Read More »Books I Read in 2020